Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-08-23
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, W. VA.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST %. 1857.
Various Items.

II
Morgantown is agitating an electric
Hight system.
San Francisco now receives mail in
thirteen days from London.
Fifty-fve counties of Iowa had
empty .jans during the last year.
The total value of mineral pro-
fhucts of the United States has in
Creased from 1885 to 1856, S29, ,O00,-
poo. 49,.
According to her new directory,
New York city has population OF
2 100000, among them are 4;400
Smiths and l 800 Browns.
The Governors of % of the States
are Democrats and the other 16 are
Republicans. The Legislatures stand
19 Republican and 10 Democratic.
India river, Florida, is said to be
the straightest in the world. A
straight line can be drawn through it
for seventy-five miles without touch
ing shore.
A new ornamentation for the piazza
is high, short wheelbarrow of plated
straw, filled with growing plants
1t stands on the piazza with the eff
feet of having been just wheeled
there.
BILLY" McGlory, formerly pro-
prietor of Armory Hall, one of the
noted dance-houses of New York city,
is said to have been converted to re-
ligion and to have purchased pew
in a fashionable church.
Arrangements have been made to
complete the railroad from Tunnelton
to Kingwood, this State. The road
has been graded for some time but
the projectors have not been able to
finish it. A syndicate of local capi-
talist will push it through to compile
ton.
Contracts have been awarded for
the construction of three U. S. cruis-
ers and two gunboats, the maximum
speed of the former to be at least
nineteen knots an hour, and for
every quarter of a knot over that a
premium of $4,000 is offered. The
work is to be completed within two
years.
The Jacksonville (Fla. Netcs Her
ald thinks the burning of the old Ca
thedral at st. Augustine, although
widely .deplored on account of the
s,iStnric value and ressaftfc assaeia=
tons of the structure, it is in one
sense fortunate event, since it has
served to bring to light several vaults
and inscriptions beneath the ruins,
and to unearth some valuable records
" covering period about which very
little has been known"
The New York Star says there is
now fair prospect for the construc-
tion of tunnel under East river to
connect New York with Long Island,
and thus supplement the transporta-
ton facilities afforded by the great
Brooklyn bridge. Surveys show for
the entire distance under the river
bed there is solid stratum of rock
with few fissures, and no soft bottom
or gravel. 1t is estimated that the
"OIh Cdil Dc CoHiplCIcu III 10 hOuluS'
Every Recommendation of DR..
Seth Arnold's Cough Killer is war
ranted genuine, and One Thousand
Dollars will be paid by the proprietors
of this remedy to any person, who,
upon investigation, finds this state
ment to be untrue. For sale by all
druggists. Price 25c. SOC. and 81.
per bottle.
DIR. Seth Arnold's Soothing and
Quicting Cordial for children. Re
commended by mothers and nurses.
25c.
The amount of public debt paid off
by this generation, in addition to pen
sions and other like results of the
civil war, is something astonishing.
On August 81, 1865, the debt was
2,755 ,995 ,275, with an anpuaI inter
est charge of s151 1882, ,O51. On Au-
gust 9 of the present year the prin-
cipal of the debt was 81, ,165, ,434, $50,
n reduction in twenty-five years of
$3.50, SCOOPS. In the same period
the annual interest charge has been
reduced 10 $40, ,G45 600, decrease of
Sill, ,1S7,O51. Since the beginning
of the present administration the
principal of the debt has been dimin-
ished by S24O, ,4S8, 700 and the inter-
est charge by Sc, 1868, 949.